Biography

Born in San Lorenzo di Arzene, Friuli

Friuli

Friuli is an area of northeastern Italy with its own particular cultural and historical identity. It comprises the major part of the autonomous region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, i.e. the province of Udine, Pordenone, Gorizia, excluding Trieste...

, Salvador published several historical essays, especially about Middle Ages. He also published six historical novel, starting from Il Longobardo (2004), dealing with the story of the Lombard

Lombards

The Lombards , also referred to as Longobards, were a Germanic tribe of Scandinavian origin, who from 568 to 774 ruled a Kingdom in Italy...

 7th century king Rothari

Rothari

Rothari , of the house of Arodus, was king of the Lombards from 636 to 652; previously he had been duke of Brescia. He succeeded Arioald, who was an Arian like himself, and was one of the most energetic of Lombard kings...

, with which he won the "Città di Cuneo

Cuneo

Cuneo is a city and comune in Piedmont, Northern Italy, the capital of the province of Cuneo, the third largest of Italy’s provinces by area...

" award. This was followed by La vendetta del Longobardo (2005) and L'ultimo Longobardo, both set during the Lombard domination of Italy.

His last novel, La palude degli eroi (2009), is set in the 13th century, and tells the last years of the rule of the Ghibelline lord Ezzelino IV da Romano.